The Mexican ministry of health has confirmed a second wave of H1N1, causing ten deaths in just four days and obliging local authorities to impose new sanitary measures. Despite the suffocatingly hot temperatures everywhere in the country, the new outbreak of the virus has infected 632 persons. The southern region, especially Chiapas state, is the most affected.El epidemiólogo Hugo López Gateli, uno de los directores del Centro Nacional de Vigilancia Epidemiológica, reconoció que en Chiapas los casos "se han disparado", al punto tal que en menos de un mes se quintuplicaron los contagios. Actualmente, ese estado contabiliza 3.664 enfermos y 19 muertos. La zona de Yucatán, al sureste, también experimentó una situación similar, con la triplicación de casos en pocas semanas (pasaron de 683 a 1.906). La ciudad de México (2.161 pacientes) es otra de las regiones con alta tasa de infectados. Epidemiologist Hugo López Gateli, one of the directors of the National Center for Epidemiological Surveillance, said that cases in Chiapas "have exploded," to the point that in less than a month the cases have quintupled. Actually, this state now lists 3,664 cases and 19 deaths. Yucatán, in the southeast, has had a similar experience, with the tripling of cases in a few weeks (rising from 683 to 1,906 cases). Mexico City (2,161 cases) is another of the regions with a high rate of infection.

While the Health Secretariat's own flu update page provides current case and death numbers, it doesn't mention a second wave. In El Universal, the health secretary says the country still has time to prepare for the new outbreak.

The Mexican ministry of health has confirmed a second wave of H1N1, causing ten deaths in just four days and obliging local authorities to impose new sanitary measures. Despite the suffocatingly hot temperatures everywhere in the country, the new outbreak of the virus has infected 632 persons. The southern region, especially Chiapas state, is the most affected.El epidemiólogo Hugo López Gateli, uno de los directores del Centro Nacional de Vigilancia Epidemiológica, reconoció que en Chiapas los casos "se han disparado", al punto tal que en menos de un mes se quintuplicaron los contagios. Actualmente, ese estado contabiliza 3.664 enfermos y 19 muertos. La zona de Yucatán, al sureste, también experimentó una situación similar, con la triplicación de casos en pocas semanas (pasaron de 683 a 1.906). La ciudad de México (2.161 pacientes) es otra de las regiones con alta tasa de infectados. Epidemiologist Hugo López Gateli, one of the directors of the National Center for Epidemiological Surveillance, said that cases in Chiapas "have exploded," to the point that in less than a month the cases have quintupled. Actually, this state now lists 3,664 cases and 19 deaths. Yucatán, in the southeast, has had a similar experience, with the tripling of cases in a few weeks (rising from 683 to 1,906 cases). Mexico City (2,161 cases) is another of the regions with a high rate of infection.

While the Health Secretariat's own flu update page provides current case and death numbers, it doesn't mention a second wave. In El Universal, the health secretary says the country still has time to prepare for the new outbreak.